Hohokam

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Hohokam (c. AD 400 to 1500): The Pima word "Hohokam" means "these who have gone." The Hohokam traditions differs from Anasazi in its rectangular, single unit dwellings, low platform mounds, ball courts, cremations, and reliance on extensive irrigation systems, as well as in it's paddle-and anvil decorated pottery. This tradition flourished in the Southern desert regions of the Southwest, and has been subdivided into as many as six periods at various times. Hohokam experienced considerable elaboration during its later history, maintaining trading connections with Mexico in the south. Irrigation canals, ball courts, platform mounds, and elaborate pottery, stone, and shellwork are characteristics of Hohokam at the height of its development.